Mar 17, 2010 11:43 AM

I'm always looking for more music to load on my iPod for my runs. I'm open to anything as long as it's high energy and makes me want to move!! So, I throw the question out to all of you... What are some of your favorite songs to run to???

My current top 3 are:

If You're Wondering if I Want You To - Weezer

Alive Again - Chicago

Good Morning Aztlan - Los Lobos

Meryl I may not be there yet, but I'm closer than I was yesterday. ~Author Unknown

I usually get stuck on artists. Currently I'm going through Vienna Teng's stuff. I would definitely recommend her tracks, even though some of them may be slower than you're used to (I just run cut time to these).

Running to music is the best. It doesn't make you any faster, but it somehow makes you run more, I don't know, purposefully. Nothing better that locking into a beat, and wheeeeee! For me, it is punk rock, the music of my misspent youth. Ramones, Husker Du, Agent Orange, Bad Brains, eighties hardcore stuff. More mainstream stuff I enjoy, though: Hives, Foo Fighters ("Monkey Wrench" has a perfect kick-butt tempo), Ramones--oh, I mentioned them already... For long runs, though, that punk stuff will kill ya. Go with Pink Floyd, Mogwai, Joy Division, JS Bach.

My latest downloads from iTunes...Carryout by Timbaland, Nothin on You by b.o.b, Airplanes by b.o.b., Billionaire by Travie McCoy, American Girl by Tom Petty, This Afternoon by Nickleback, OMG by Usher.

Freihofer's Run For Women 5k-6/05/10- 36:53

Altamont 5k- 8/28/10- 35:14

Race for the Cure 5k- 10/02/10- 33:21

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn." Harriet Beecher Stowe

Anything that has a good beat and keeps me motivated I have 74 songs on my list currently so that I don't hear the same thing every time I run. I listen to just about anything so my list is really varied, but here are a few I have: